Stephen Brooks 🦆 @[email protected]

@norm your a failure

"massive amounts of computing power spent creating permanent databases of impermanent consumer goods"
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RT https://twitter.com/tracyalloway/status/1486641424816873472

@EricZhang456 I think SDL (1 or 2) might have some commands that let you render directly to the framebuffer without going through X, Wayland or OpenGL

400 million years ago, #fungi were the tallest living things on Earth
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/12/23/giant-prehistoric-mushrooms/?firefox=1

A #SpaceX spent booster from 2015 is going to hit the Moon?
#space
RT https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60148543

@SplitShockVirus Mechanical version

@inference @norm OK thanks that's good to know.

Yes, reading messages off the phone's screen doesn't count as breaking encryption 😀

@inference @norm Sounds good. Nah it wasn't crypto, I just dug out the article that worried me:
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/114551/mobile-2/fbi-access-private-signal-messages.html

Apparently Intel is eating a certain amount of humble pie regarding the Aurora supercomputer being late
RT https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1486472359930474505

@inference @norm Thanks! I saw some articles questioning certain things behind-the-scenes with Signal a few months back (can't find them now, maybe a red herring)

Hydroelectric dam in Washington state
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RT https://twitter.com/MarkTomasovic/status/1486165692298706947

@SplitShockVirus I should remember to check it more often. I got it originally because I was trying to root my phone and obviously that wouldn't be allowed on the Play Store

@selea @twsparkle Same

@SplitShockVirus [ ⬤ ◄ ] systemd

@niloc @glynmoody If Google Drive becomes unusable, don't use Google Drive

@EricZhang456 How does that work? Does ffplay produce a video window without going through a window manager?

@inference @norm Which one (if any) of the messengers is considered to be secure at the moment? I signed up for Signal a while ago